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A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...
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schemes to strengthen mitigation incentives for the transportation, industry, building, forestry, and agricultural sectors …
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This paper reviews forestry reform in the Congo basin, focusing on Gabon. It argues that the key challenge for the … Congo basin countries is to manage their forests in a sustainable manner. It presents the current situation of forestry … taxation and forestry reform in Gabon. The paper analyzes optimal taxation in the forestry sector using a static model. The …
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Countries generally tax the forestry sector to achieve the twin objectives of revenue maximization and sustainability …-have limited the use of auctions so far, particularly in low-income countries. To establish transparency of the forestry sector …
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After impressive growth in the 2000s, China's productivity has more recently stagnated. We use firm-level data to … analyze productivity and firm dynamism trends from 2003 to 2018. We document six facts that together show a decline in China … explaining China's sluggish TFP growth and that SOE reform could boost productivity growth indirectly by stimulating business …
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China’s current growth model— which has delivered steady and robust growth for two decades and lifted some 500 million … continued reliance on capital accumulation, China can grow at a healthy pace and maintain its convergence toward the level of … high income economies. Evidence from China’s provinces indicates that there is room to improve productivity and sustain …
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This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …. Across China’s provinces, divergences in per capita incomes are driven by the relative level of capital-intensity, public …
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